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The most important Christian idea is that God is love. God loves the world He created, especially each of us humans. We are made in the image of God and are designed to receive and reflect the love of God. Jesus, the Incarnation of God, declared as the greatest commandment to love God, with the second commandment derivative from the first, namely to love one’s neighbor as oneself.1 The Incarnation—the Christmas event—is the ultimate act of love as told in what most Christians identify as the central verse of the biblical record, John 3:16.
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Notes
Brennan Manning, Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1993), 18.
Joseph L. Baron, A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (New York: Crown Publishers, 1956), 554.
See J. B. Phillips, “Resident Policeman,” Your God is Too Small (New York: Macmillan, 1961), part I, chapter 1.
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961), 48.
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1979), 106.
Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale (New York: HarperCollins, 1977), 8.
James Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981), chapter 21;
M. Scott Peck, The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), 192.
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Ringenberg, W.C. (2016). Love. In: The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398338_7
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